So our Mass goes back, without essential change, to the age when it first developed out of the oldest liturgy of all. It is still redolent of that liturgy, of the days when Cæsar ruled the world and thought he could stamp out the faith of Christ, when our fathers met together before dawn and sang a hymn to Christ as to a God. The final result of our enquiry is that, in spite of unsolved problems, in spite of later changes, there is not in Christendom another rite so venerable as ours. ~Fortescue

Monday, October 31, 2016

For the first time in 20 years, the traditional Mass will be celebrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Monday, November 14 at 7PM.

The (traditional) Councils of the Knights of Columbus – the Regina Coeli Council that meets at Holy Innocents & the Agnus Dei Council – received a generous permission from Cardinal Dolan to have a pilgrimage and a (traditional) Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral before the end of the Year of Mercy.

This will be the first time since Summorum Pontificum that a traditional Mass will be publicly celebrated at the Cathedral of the Archdiocese of New York!

Of course, as you all know, this means that you have to bring your relatives, your good friends, and your no-so-good friends to this wonderful and historic event for the traditional community in the Archdiocese of New York!

Friday, October 14, 2016

The Most Reverend Athanasius
Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Maria
Santissima in Astana, Kazakhstan & Titular Bishop of Celerina, will come to the Church of the Holy
Innocents to celebrate:

§A Pontifical Solemn Mass at the Faldstool on Monday, October 24at 6pm.

§A Pontifical Low Mass on Tuesday, October
25 at 6PM. After this Holy Mass, His Excellency will give a Conference
on Christ the King & the Social Kingship of Christ.

Everyone is
encouraged to attend these wonderful Masses and events.

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Bishop Schneider is an absolute defender of the
traditional and immemorial practice of receiving Holy
Communion kneeling and on the tongue – so much so that his book Dominus
est deals exclusively with this theme. Dominus est was published
in Italian, and has since been translated into English, German, Estonian,
Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian and Chinese. (“The
awareness of the greatness of the Eucharistic mystery is demonstrated in a
special way by the manner in which the Body of the Lord is distributed and
received.”).

Bishop
Schneider has also been an unconditional defender of the permanent and
infallible teaching of the Church on the definition
and composition of the family. Moreover, he has called for a clarification
on Amoris Laetitia in order to avoid
confusion and abusive interpretations that would lead to “a permanent, deliberate
and free violation of God’s sixth Commandment and of the sacredness and
indissolubility of a true and valid marriage.”